In Apples "opinion", you are supposed to pay to play, thats what their ecosystem is designed around. Pay to get it fully repaired or get a new one. Apple owners are supposed to have money, thats what they built their brand image around.
Alternatively, its really not that hard to switch to a cheaper and more reliable, laptop with Elementary OS Linux distro.
Thinkpads are pretty reliable as far as laptops go. Lenovo is owned by Thinkpad so thats worth while taking a look at as far as specs, and generally linux works out of the box. The only thing that may require some tweaking is hardware function keys, but thats a rarety.
Of course battery life will be on the average worse, as specific things like video decoding isn't as optimized as it is on MAC, but in terms of CPU heavy tasks like running VSCode with browsing, I didn't find my work MPB to be significantly more efficient.
I personally never really messed with Elementary, but I did run Manjaro on a Levovo Ideapad and things like NVPrime worked out of the box which was surprising.
The cool thing about Linux is that you can install any number of Desktop Environments and just switch between them. I3wm is worthwhile to install along whatever you use, as that is very efficient in terms of screen space, and you can often get by without using the mouse for a lot of stuff, which makes laptop use experience much more efficient.
it’s less ‘apple owners are supposed to have money,’ more ‘owners are dumb enough to part with it.’
It's both. A fool and his money are easily parted, it's no coincidence that you're supposed to Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. When you stop having money to give to Apple, they stop rendering services, hardware support and developer tooling.
I like ElementaryOS but I'd give modern GNOME a serious look too. Something like Fedora feels closer to the modern Mac experience than ElementaryOS does, these days. But it's all pretty subjective so you may as well try both once you find a laptop you like.
If you'd like to start with Linux as a former a macOS user I'd recommend GNOME with dash-to-dock extension. Probably you could go for Fedora. Alternatively you could use Debian or if you are more exp. maybe plain Arch or a derivate like EndeavourOS.
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In Apples "opinion", you are supposed to pay to play, thats what their ecosystem is designed around. Pay to get it fully repaired or get a new one. Apple owners are supposed to have money, thats what they built their brand image around.
Alternatively, its really not that hard to switch to a cheaper and more reliable, laptop with Elementary OS Linux distro.
it’s less ‘apple owners are supposed to have money,’ more ‘owners are dumb enough to part with it.’
Makes sense with the elementary OS rec, do you have any recommendations -- thinkpad?
Thinkpads are pretty reliable as far as laptops go. Lenovo is owned by Thinkpad so thats worth while taking a look at as far as specs, and generally linux works out of the box. The only thing that may require some tweaking is hardware function keys, but thats a rarety.
Of course battery life will be on the average worse, as specific things like video decoding isn't as optimized as it is on MAC, but in terms of CPU heavy tasks like running VSCode with browsing, I didn't find my work MPB to be significantly more efficient.
I personally never really messed with Elementary, but I did run Manjaro on a Levovo Ideapad and things like NVPrime worked out of the box which was surprising.
The cool thing about Linux is that you can install any number of Desktop Environments and just switch between them. I3wm is worthwhile to install along whatever you use, as that is very efficient in terms of screen space, and you can often get by without using the mouse for a lot of stuff, which makes laptop use experience much more efficient.
It's both. A fool and his money are easily parted, it's no coincidence that you're supposed to Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. When you stop having money to give to Apple, they stop rendering services, hardware support and developer tooling.
I like ElementaryOS but I'd give modern GNOME a serious look too. Something like Fedora feels closer to the modern Mac experience than ElementaryOS does, these days. But it's all pretty subjective so you may as well try both once you find a laptop you like.
That's one reason I'm done with Apple.
I'd recommend to get
- Frame.work Notebook (e.g. 13 Ryzen ai)
- Lenovo (e.g. T14s)
- LG Gram
If you'd like to start with Linux as a former a macOS user I'd recommend GNOME with dash-to-dock extension. Probably you could go for Fedora. Alternatively you could use Debian or if you are more exp. maybe plain Arch or a derivate like EndeavourOS.
It’s so sad this is the top comment. It’s literally irrelevant. This could happen with any laptop running any OS.
Yeah I kinda think their hardware is great but everything else from culture to software is not what I want.